Police investigate claims that a dead man was taken into a post office in a bid to collect his pension

An investigation was underway in Ireland on Monday after claims that a dead man was taken to a post office by men attempting to collect his pension. Weekend newspapers said two men were suspected of carrying the dead man into a small shop, which doubles as a post office, in Carlow, southeast of the capital Dublin, on Friday morning.

One of them told the Sunday World newspaper: "He was alive when we left the house."

The pair were quoted as saying they asked post office staff beforehand if they could collect the man's pension on his behalf as he was ill, but they were refused.